Google Made URL Removal Request Easy

This is really a helpful for webmaster and website owner to remove unwanted web pages or accidentally make private web pages live which is now cached by search engines. If you have verified your ownership of website in Google Webmaster Tool and want to remove unwanted URL then now you don’t need to block such pages before requesting URL removal.

Removal Request Persist for 90 Days Period

When a URL submitted for removal in Google Webmaster Tool, Google consider it as a temporary removal request and continue crawling for 90 days period. In this 90 days period Google will crawl pages but not display in their search results. At any time during this 90 days period you can cancel removal request. After 90 days the pages submitted for removal can reappear in search results. So, this is helpful if by mistake you have uploaded some personal data that you don’t want Google to crawl.

Permanent Removal Request

If you wish to remove your website content permanently from Google search results then you must block your webpage using following blocking parameters:
1. Make sure that the page no longer exists by returning 404 or 410 HTTP Status code.
2. Block such page using robots.txt file.
3. Add no-index meta tags in page you want to remove.

Google interpret this as a permanent removal request and remove page permanently from their search engine till any of the following blocking parameters present on the page. If you in future you remove blocking parameter Google may crawl the page again and start popping up in their search result.

Free Calls to US & Canada through GMail

Hello My Friends,

In year 2010 Google launched Voice Call at free of cost to call your relatives or friends who are living in US & Canada at no cost.

Just login to you Gmail account and under your Chat Box you will see an Icon for Voice Call. Before you start using you need to download software.

Great work Google. Keep it up.

Verify Google Analytics through Google Webmaster Tool

Now its easy to verify your Google analytics account using Google webmaster tool. If you are using same email accounts to access analytics and webmaster tool then from now you don’t need separate verification, you can now verify Google Analytics accounts using your webmaster tool.

Not only you can access your Google Analytics profile but you can also access some important analytics features through your webmaster tool.

Which features you can access in Webmaster Tool:

1. View Google Analytics referring pages report. To view this repot you need to
login to webmaster tool and then go to Links to your site page.
2. Also you can now easily access Analytics account directly from the top left bar
when you are viewing site related pages.

How to verify Google Analytics through Google Webmaster Tool

1. Login to Webmaster Tool.
2. Click on Manage next to the site you want to verify for Analytics.
3. Then click on Google Analytics Profiles.
4. Select the profile you want to associate with the site.
5. Click on Save to start viewing Google Analytics for your site.

Regards,
Bhavesh Goswami.

Google Website Clinic for Non-Profit Organization Websites

Hi Friends,

On 25th Oct 2010 Google search quality team announced a Website Clinic for non profit organization websites where website owner submit their website and Google webmaster team will offer broad advice that help to improve user experience.

Main goal behind this clinic is to help non-profit organizations but you can also submit your website for review if you are small business or government websites. Before submitting your website for reviewing your website by Google you must read their submission guidelines.

How to submit your website for review:

First you need to register for site clinic by filling up the form. After registering your website Google experts will review your website and will determine trends and share for best practices to improve your site quality and user experience. After reviewing your website Google experts will submit their suggestion in follow-up posts that comply with the standard webmaster guidelines. By submitting your website for review you must permit Google to use your website as reference in their follow-up site clinic posts.

Here are the guidelines you should go through before submitting your website:

1. Your site must be registered non-profit organization.
2. You must verify the ownership of websites by submitting in Google Webmaster Tools.
3. Go through the Google Webmaster Quality Guideline and try to follow guideline as much as possible.

Regards,
Bhavesh Goswami.

Google Launched new SEO Startup Guide

Hi All,

Google officials announced on 28th Sep 2010 that they have launched a new SEO Start Guide. Google first SEO start up guide was published locally before 2 years and now they have launched a new version of start guide that covers more examples and glossary to understand different terms and factors that will help to optimize a website. Google SEO Start up guide is available in different 40 languages.

This start up guide includes all the important parameters like Meta tags, URL, content, sitemap, website navigation, anchor text, robots.txt, 301 redirects and much more. Also this start up guide gives you an idea about how to make your website user friendly and search engine friendly.

What's new on this start up guide?

1. Descriptive information on all aspects.
2. Image example to better understand the content
3. Term definition (Glossary) throughout the guide
4. How to optimize mobile website
5. Colorful text with snippet to for better understanding
6. Useful information about social media optimization

These are the important topics that covered in this latest version of Google SEO Startup Guide. If you are curious to what else includes in this latest SEO Startup guide then click on the below link to download PDF file:

Google SEO Startup Guide Download

I am sure this will definitely help you in your website optimization process.

Regards,
Bhavesh Goswami.